MEDICO-LEGAL EXAMINATION OF THE ABUSES, ABERRATIONS, AND DEMENTIA OF THE GENITAL SENSE

Author: Jacobus X.
Title: MEDICO-LEGAL EXAMINATION OF THE ABUSES, ABERRATIONS, AND DEMENTIA OF THE GENITAL SENSE
Publication: Paris, France: Charles Carrington, 1901
Edition: Limited Edition

Description: Softcover. Octavo, 9 in. x 5.8 in., pp. 19, [4], 4-543, [1] (advertising). Limited edition, # 686/750. Contemporary linen-paper wrapped over paper covers. Red and black title to front and spine, with red and black advertising to back. Untrimmed edges. Rubbing to edges. Darkening to spine, with splits and closed tears to paper over spine. Spine has splits, but threads holding. Red and black title page. Spotting to endpapers. Pages are clean and supple. Good.

"I have passed twenty-eight years of my life amongst diverse races, in all the five great divisions of the World. By giving my professional services to the natives of each place I visited, and by studying their language, I was able to gain their confidence, and learn much about their customs, manner of living, habits, etc. Having made diseases of the genitourinary organ my speciality, I was often consulted in these cases, and therefore collected much valuable information. I was not merely satisfied with observing the effect of the human passions, but it appeared to me indispensable to trace these passions back to their moral causes, and make a psychological study of those causes. [ ] This is not an obscene work, but a psychological sketch of the history of the sexual passions of the human race;—a stone towards the building of a vast edifice which, as yet, is hardly commenced. And besides the medico-legal view of the question, I have made a thorough research into, and philosophical examination of, the original causes." (Jacobux X, translated from foreward of the 1893 French edition).

Seller ID: 88229

Subject: Medical, Health


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